Specialization in Leadership of Sustainable Systems (MA, PhD)

By bringing together students who share a common concern for the future of the planet and its cultural and biological diversity, we hope to inspire and empower a new generation of leaders with excitement and concrete professional opportunities to create positive impacts.

Students have the opportunity to become part of a global network of scholar-practitioners who will continue to engage with one another and with Saybrook as they venture out into the world with new knowledge, skills, tools, and resources.

Student learning outcomes for the specialization in Leadership of Sustainable Systems are:

  • To understand and explore from a critical, creative and systemic perspective the complexity of the challenges and opportunities that organizations and communities face to operate in humane and sustainable ways
  • To diagnose, research, evaluate and design interventions for transformative change in private, public and social institutions
    To develop the leadership competencies and collaborative skills to facilitate, guide, educate and empower people in diverse contexts to become part of the solution
  • To learn from and with their learning community about shared leadership, personal transformation, collaboration, communication and diversity.

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Or, to  find out more about if the PhD in Organizational Systems program is right for you, please email admissions@saybrook.edu or call 800-825-4480.

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Our Community Spotlights

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Sylvia Gaffney
Organizational Systems Alumni 2007
I was challenged to go deeper, investigate connections, assumptions, and the way that interconnectivity works.
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Prasad Kaipa
Organizational Systems Faculty
"We explain things with our mind but we do things with our heart, and our emotions drive organizational behavior a lot more than we usually acknowledge."
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Dashielle Vawter
Organizational Systems Student
"Saybrook is an intellectual home for me. The people that I've met have been really engaging, the materials I've been exposed to have inspired me, and the conferences have been truly excellent."

Rethinking Complexity

Members of Saybrook's Organizational Systems community share insights into the human side of organizational development and sustainable change

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